IDG News/Computerworld/Gregg Keizer gets it wrong again when this bizarre distributed entity reports this week that Microsoft "may move up Windows 7 service pack release" from its fictional original plan to "wait nearly two years after Windows 7's launch to issue a first service pack." Now, he says, Microsoft has "since changed its mind" and may ship Windows 7 SP1 as soon as "the last quarter of 2010." Nope. Q4 2010 has always been the plan. As I've been saying for months, that plan has Windows 7 (and Server 2008 R2) SP1 shipping exactly one year after the original release of those OSes. That plan hasn't changed, to my knowledge. End of story
Ed Bott cites the Pete Townsend defense in this journalistic walk on the Dark Side of the Net. I've been digging into message boards and forums run by unabashed Windows enthusiasts who are intent on breaking Microsoft’s activation technology. I've had these forums bookmarked for years and stop in every once in a while just to see what’s new. This time I decided to drop by and actually try some of tools and utilities to see if I could become a pirate, too. Unfortunately, I succeeded.
Microsoft today announced a new member of the Windows Server team called Windows MultiPoint Server 2010. Aimed at educational institutions, MultiPoint appears to be, in many ways, a successor to Windows SteadyState, which won't be made available in a Windows 7 version. Here's the news. Microsoft today announced the release of Windows MultiPoint Server 2010, a new Windows product that increases access to affordable computing in educational scenarios such as classrooms, labs and libraries by allowing multiple users to simultaneously share one computer using multiple screens. Windows MultiPoint Server 2010 is now globally available to OEMs and will be rolling out to Microsoft academic volume licensing customers on March 1.
